I had a 256GB SSD with multiple partitions that had Windows 10 on it. At some point in the past I was force to convert it to a Dynamic Disk by Disk Management because it was the only way to support the partition layout that I wanted, or to shrink it or something fairly basic in the past. Fast Forward several months and when I went to install another version of Windows to this disk I was unable to and the error given was that the target disk had to be basic MBR.
I used some professional AOMEI software that purported to be capable of converting a Dynamic Disk back to a basic MBR disk without data loss. I got an error saying that some volumes would be lost if I proceeded about half way thru so I backed out of that and planned to backup my data and do it the MS recommended way via diskpart clean, etc. which would nuke the data.
Well I couldn't even get that far because now it shows as "Invalid" in both Disk Management and Diskpart. I tried following the video at the bottom of this post to repair the "Invalid" status, but when I try to save the changes in HxD I get a popup that says the disc is "Write Protected". I explored a registry edit related to write protection but that wasn't enabled anyways.
Right now I cannot even boot from that disk, but there must be something there because I am able to access some basic and useless windows recovery menus when attempting to boot from that disk.
Nothing is super important, but I would like to know a solution that doesn't involve data loss. I assume that if I were to select the disk in diskpart and run the "clean" command I could get the hardware to a usable state again, but I want to learn here in case I ever need to recover something very important in a similar case.
I plan to make a boot disc of Clonezilla and see if I can at the very least back up the disk in its current state before nuking it completely.
By the way I'm not sure if "insert link" is working as intended on your forum editor, it embedded the entire video and did not show my text anywhere. I was just trying to leave a link the video not embed it in the middle of my post.
I used some professional AOMEI software that purported to be capable of converting a Dynamic Disk back to a basic MBR disk without data loss. I got an error saying that some volumes would be lost if I proceeded about half way thru so I backed out of that and planned to backup my data and do it the MS recommended way via diskpart clean, etc. which would nuke the data.
Well I couldn't even get that far because now it shows as "Invalid" in both Disk Management and Diskpart. I tried following the video at the bottom of this post to repair the "Invalid" status, but when I try to save the changes in HxD I get a popup that says the disc is "Write Protected". I explored a registry edit related to write protection but that wasn't enabled anyways.
Right now I cannot even boot from that disk, but there must be something there because I am able to access some basic and useless windows recovery menus when attempting to boot from that disk.
Nothing is super important, but I would like to know a solution that doesn't involve data loss. I assume that if I were to select the disk in diskpart and run the "clean" command I could get the hardware to a usable state again, but I want to learn here in case I ever need to recover something very important in a similar case.
I plan to make a boot disc of Clonezilla and see if I can at the very least back up the disk in its current state before nuking it completely.
By the way I'm not sure if "insert link" is working as intended on your forum editor, it embedded the entire video and did not show my text anywhere. I was just trying to leave a link the video not embed it in the middle of my post.
